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CHIEF SECRETARIES FOR IRELAND, 1660-1922

Matthew Lock 1660

Sir Thomas Page 1662-1669

Sir Henry Ford 1669-1670

Sir Ellis Leighton 1670-1672

Sir Henry Ford 1672-1673

Sir William Harbord 1673-1676

Sir Cyril Wyche 1676-1682

Sir William Ellis 1682-1685

Sir Paul Rycaut 1686-1687

Thomas Sheridan 1687-1688

Patrick Tyrrell 1688-1689

John Davis 1690-1692

Sir Cyril Wyche 1692-1693

Sir Richard Aldworth 1695-1696

William Palmer 1696-1697

Matthew Prior 1697-1699

Humphrey May 1699-1701

Francis Gwyn 1701-1703

Edward Southwell 1703-1707

George Dodlington 1707-1708

Joseph Addison 1708-1710

Edward Southwell 1710-1713

Sir John Stanley 1713-1714

Joseph Addison 1714-1715

Martin Bladen and Charles Delafaye 1715-1717

Edward Webster 1717-1720

Horatio Walpole 1720-1721

Edward Hopkins 1721-1724

Thomas Clutterbuck 1724-1730

Walter Cary 1730-1737

Sir Edward Walpole 1737-1739

Thomas Townshend 1739

Henry Bilson Legge 1739-1741

William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon 1741-1745

Richard Lidell 1745-1746

Sewallis Shirley 1746

Edward Weston 1746-1750

Lord George Sackville 1750-1755

Henry Seymour Conway 1755-1757

Richard Rigby 1757-1761

William Gerard Hamilton 1761-1764

Charles Moore, 6th Earl Of Drogheda 1764-1765

Francis Seymour Conway, Viscount Conway 1765-1766

Augustus John Hervey 1766-1767

Theophilus Jones 1767

Lord Frederick Campbell 1767-1768

Sir George Macartney 1769-1772

Sir John Blaquiere 1772-1776

Sir Richard Heron 1776-1780

William Eden 1780-1782

Richard FitzPatrick 1782

William Wyndham Grenville 1782-1783

William Windham 1783

Thomas Pelham 1783-1784

Thomas Orde 1784-1787

Alleyne Fitzherbert 1787-1789

Robert Hobart 1789-1793

Sylvester Douglas 1793-1794

George Damer, Viscount Milton 1794-1795

Thomas Pelham 1795-1798

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh 1798-1801

Charles Abbot 1801-1802

William Wickham 1802-1804

Sir Evan Nepean 1804-1805

Nicholas Vansittart 1805

Charles Long 1805-1806

William Elliot 1806-1807

Sir Arthur Wellesley 1807-1809

Robert Dundas 1809

William Wellesley-Pole 1809-1812

Robert Peel 1812-1818

Charles Grant 1818-1821

Henry Goulburn 1821-1827

William Lamb 1827-1828

Sir Francis Leveson Gower 1828-1830

Sir Henry Hardinge 1830

Edward Geoffrey Smith-Stanley 1830-1833

Sir John Cam Hobhouse 1833

Edward John Littleton 1833-1834

Sir Henry Hardinge 1834-1835

George Howard, Viscount Morpeth 1835-1841

Edward Granville Eliot, Lord Eliot 1841-1845

Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1845-1846

Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl Of Lincoln 1846

Henry Labouchere 1846-1847

Sir William Meredyth Somerville 1847-1852

Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas 1852

Sir John Young 1853-1855

Edward Horsman 1855-1857

Henry Arthur Herbert 1857-1858

Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas 1858-1859

Edward Cardwell 1859-1861

Sir Robert Peel 1861-1865

Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue 1865-1866

Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl Of Mayo 1866-1868

John Wilson-Patten 1868

Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue 1868-1871

Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess Of Hartington 1871-1874

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 1874-1878

James Lowther 1878-1880

William Edward Forster 1880-1882

Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish 1882

George Otto Trevelyan 1882-1884

Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1884-1885

Sir William Hart Dyke 1885-1886

William Henry Smith 1886

John Morley 1886

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 1886-1887

Arthur James Balfour 1887-1891

William Lawies Jackson 1891-1892

John Morley 1892-1895

Gerald William Balfour 1895-1900

George Wyndham 1900-1905

Walter Hume Long 1905

James Bryce 1905-1907

Augustine Birrell 1907-1916

Henry Edward Duke 1916-1918

Edward Shortt 1918-1919

James Ian Macpherson 1919-1920

Sir Hamar Greenwood 1920-1922

SEE ALSO

List Of British Politicians By Wealth At Death